Reborn as a female internet celebrity in a county town

Chapter 202 Are you, Yan Li, the kind of person who can take it all?
Actually, Yan Li had another thought in her mind a second before she raised her hand to speak.

That means... making phone calls to call for backup!

She's going to shake Lin Lang over!
After all, these old guys are too powerful.

But she was afraid that if she shook Lin Lang over, the situation would become unmanageable.

After hearing Yan Li say that Tianjin Capital was also a victim, Guan Sheng asked, "Mr. Yan, could you elaborate?"

Yan Li stood up, first apologizing to everyone, and continued, "Leaders and CEOs present, our Tianjin Mixed Selection has only been launched for two weeks, and we have always strictly abided by the rules... I used my personal influence to raise funds on the Internet without any violations, and we have never thought of illegal transactions."

Someone said, "With your personal influence, raising funds is no problem at all, but you say you didn't engage in any illegal transactions? Do you even believe that?"

Yan Li: "Yes, I admit that we did do a lot of two-way transactions, but is that what we wanted to do?"

"What, is someone forcing you to engage in two-way trading?"

"Yes!" Yan Li's expression was very serious. "Someone is deliberately trying to trip us up. Someone is maliciously targeting Tianjin Capital. In order to protect ourselves, Tianjin Capital had no choice but to conduct a small number of two-way transactions."

She uses very precise language, and her words are few!
After all, the boundaries of two-way trading are very vague. No public fund can say that it has never done any two-way trading. It's just a matter of the extent of the impact.

Two-way trading is also legal and compliant under certain circumstances, namely, after selling stocks, if the stock price falls back and is then determined to be a suitable investment position, one can buy them back.

"Yan Li, don't you find your reason ridiculous?"

In fact, Tianjin Capital's impact on these established public funds is greater than imagined.

In just a few days, several companies have compiled data showing that the impact on them has already reached 20%.
Take Excellent Era as an example. Normally, they would face about 600 million yuan in redemptions and 1 billion yuan in subscriptions in the next two weeks. Ignoring the impact of net asset value, their scale is showing net growth.

But what about the last two weeks? The first week was okay, just slightly affected.

The second week was just too outrageous.

In the past two weeks, redemptions totaled one billion, while subscriptions decreased to only eight billion.

If this situation continues, then... in less than two years, the very foundation of Excellent Era will be destroyed.

They certainly don't believe Tianjin Capital can do this for two years, but they're afraid that others will follow suit...

What if smaller mutual funds all follow this approach?
With their scale of hundreds of billions, they simply can't do what Tianjin Capital did, since they can't pull it up!
Therefore, Tianjin Capital must die!

This has seriously threatened their living space.

Yan Li took a deep breath.

With a smile, he said, "Does Mr. Zhang find this laughable? Then let me ask you... our newly launched fund was targeted by major funds just two days after entering the market, and two days later, all of its holdings information was posted online. If you were in that situation, what would you do?"

"Who gave you permission to buy small-cap stocks? Aren't you deliberately hyping up speculative themes?"

"Ha... Buying small-cap stocks is wrong? Is it wrong for us to be optimistic about these two themes? As a new fund, most of our funds come from internet hot money. Is it wrong for us to want to generate some net asset value to stabilize our funds? What business doesn't offer some promotions when it opens? So, Tianjin Capital is just supposed to quietly buy the so-called large-cap stocks you're talking about, and then watch our net asset value remain unchanged while our funds dwindle day by day?"

"This is not a reason for you to maliciously manipulate the market."

"How did we maliciously manipulate the market? Since you think we maliciously manipulated the market, why don't you call the police? Go ahead and call the police, everyone at Tianjin Capital will cooperate! Mr. Zhang, do you know what kind of behavior it is to make baseless accusations? You are no different from those who maliciously spread rumors online!"

Yan Li's smile grew fainter and fainter until it disappeared completely at some point.

She looked calmly at everyone present.

Zhang, the CEO of Excellent Era, turned ashen-faced and said, "Then how do you explain Shen An'an's matter? Isn't Shen An'an your cousin? Aren't you the one who cultivated her image behind the scenes and had her stir up trouble for you on the internet?"

In their view, it would be very difficult to clear Shen An'an's name.

Even without direct evidence, Yan Li should be blamed simply because of their kinship.

Yan Li: "I will not respond to Shen An'an's matter for the time being. I want to ask President Zhang, you said that I was behind the scenes managing Shen An'an's persona. Do you have any evidence?"

"Just because Lin Lang from Big Fish Media is in your company, and Shen An'an signed a cooperation agreement with Big Fish Media, all the plans were put forward by Big Fish Media."

Yan Li nodded: "I won't refute what you said, because it's the truth! But I want to ask, can you cultivate a persona like Shen An'an's? Can you know a company's stock will fall without any negative news? Can you predict accurately every time without any surprises? From the financial fraud at Tianshui Duck Industry, to the performance decline of Wanli Technology, and then to Yongkang Bio... You investigated so thoroughly, you should know Shen An'an's buying point, right? I want to ask, what is the cost of cultivating such a persona? Can your top-notch analyst team do that?"

"Can't there be even a tiny bit of luck involved? Can that change the fundamental nature of things?"

Yan Li: "A little bit of luck? One stock might work, two stocks might work, but three stocks, appearing consecutively without interruption—that's a little bit of luck? If that's so much luck, then Jia Shi Fund should have had it too, right? How come you didn't manage to do it? How come it was such a coincidence that I managed to do it?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's meaningless! Do you think something that's purely based on luck would be a persona we deliberately cultivated?"

Yan Li's goal was to first discredit their efforts in cultivating the persona of Shen An'an.

Only by denying this matter can we completely deny it.

Even if that's not the case, you're still exploiting this persona!

Yan Li: "Okay, Mr. Zhang said it himself. We did not deliberately cultivate this persona. I know that my kinship with Shen An'an can never be changed, but I have a way to prove that Tianjin Capital never intended to use Shen An'an's persona to manipulate the market from beginning to end."

"How do you prove it?"

Yan Li took out a USB drive and said to Guan Sheng, "Leader Guan, may I borrow the multimedia projector in the conference room?"

Guan Sheng nodded. "Okay."

Yan Li left her seat and went to the computer.

Immediately, someone came over to help. After turning on the computer, they waited for Yan Li to insert the USB drive before standing aside and waiting.

As the multimedia projector turned on, Yan Li opened a file on the USB drive.

After opening the file, Yan Li didn't immediately explain its contents. Instead, she showed the file's first edit time and said, "Let me show you the file's first and last edit times. Both times were this Tuesday. By the way, I heard that edit times can be changed, but some traces will be left. If anyone has any questions about these edit times, I'm willing to cooperate with any investigation."

Now that I've finished reading the edited version, I'll share the content. It's quite simple: it outlines our trading strategy for Tuesday. However, due to a sudden video released by Shen An'an, the market direction of our stocks changed, rendering our strategy completely useless…

As everyone knows, the market opened at the daily limit down because the major players were playing a game with us. They were worried that we would rush to sell and dump the shares, and at the same time, they wanted to get more funds into Tianjin Capital.

After all, since someone leaked Tianjin Capital's holdings, Tianjin Capital has always kept its information public...

We had over a billion yuan in funds that day. Before the market opened, we had already anticipated today's market conditions, so we slowly started accumulating shares at low prices... These are our Tianjin Hybrid Selection's transaction records, and it's clear from them that we were actually very conservative. If we had arranged for Shen An'an to release the video earlier, we could have bought in with all our funds at the limit-down price. But the fact is... before Shen An'an released the video, we had only bought half of the total shares...

I know you might say we did it on purpose to distance ourselves, but I'm about to prove that we don't need to distance ourselves at all. If we didn't do it, we didn't do it!
Tianjin Capital is a public fund, so we will naturally strictly abide by the rules... but unexpected events are beyond our consideration.

At that point, the situation was quite clear: the major shareholders of these stocks were waiting for us to make a takeover bid, and countless retail investors were also waiting for us to do so. Our initial goal was to ride the market sentiment and prepare to make a takeover bid for one of the stocks at the end of the trading day!
As soon as we make a move to acquire a share of a stock, the market will respond immediately.

Not only on Tuesday, we even decided to make a takeover bid for another stock on Wednesday.

At that time, we were in dire straits. With everyone knowing our holdings, they all became our opponents. All we could do was take one step: break through and rebuild, and find a way out of this desperate situation!

By acquiring a stake in a particular stock, the aim is to drive up the price, and then, taking advantage of the market's reaction, sell off most of the shares. The funds used for the acquisition are then treated as disposable assets.

Guan Sheng stared intently at the screen; Yan Li's explanation was crystal clear. Guan Sheng himself had reviewed the day's events several times, and just as Yan Li had said, they were indeed in a desperate situation.

If it weren't for Shen An'an using her public image and influence to release videos, he really wouldn't know how to break the deadlock.

However, after Yan Li said that, he suddenly realized.

It's like the intricate chess puzzle in Jin Yong's novels; if you follow normal thinking, there's no solution, only a dead end.

However, by cutting off his own arm, he gained a glimmer of hope for survival.

Yan Li was also right; the phrase "destruction before construction" and "finding life in the face of adversity" perfectly describes the situation.

This action is illogical and goes against human nature!
A normal person would only think of raising a sign and then engaging in off-site transactions and transferring benefits.

However, it is clear that Tuesday is not a time when the company has the capacity to conduct off-exchange acquisitions, so Tianjin Capital certainly would not choose to make a takeover bid on Tuesday.

Considering the market sentiment at the time, if Tianjin Capital were to make a move on a particular stock, it would instantly ignite everyone's emotions. Everyone would rush to grab the shares that were hitting the daily limit down, fearing that they would miss such a good opportunity. After all, at that time, everyone knew exactly which stocks Tianjin Capital had bought, so they could pinpoint the exact stocks and were not afraid of making a mistake.

In other words, Tianjin Capital could have pulled itself out of its predicament without Shen An'an's help.

This move seems unremarkable at first glance, but the more you think about it, the more you realize that its deceptive and realistic approach perfectly captures the essence of human nature.

Yan Li: "I made this document immediately after the market closed on Tuesday, because I already knew about Shen An'an's video at that time. I can't change the past, I can only go with the flow!"

"Couldn't you have come up with this excuse afterward? Why wasn't the document edited before Shen An'an released the video?"

Yan Li laughed, "If the document was prepared before Shen An'an released the video, you would be even more certain that this is an excuse, right? After all, who would compile such a detailed operational plan for no reason? Aren't you afraid of being seen by others? Preparing something like this in advance just proves that you have something to hide. In your eyes, whatever Tianjin Capital does is wrong. You can find a million reasons! If you can't see it with a magnifying glass, you can use a microscope. In short, Tianjin Capital deserves to be maliciously targeted, and wanting to live is a crime!"

"you……"

Yan Li reiterated, "I'll say it again: everyone can call the police at any time, and Tianjin Capital is willing to cooperate with all investigations. It's true that Tianjin Capital engaged in some two-way trading and profited from human nature… but are we, as stock market investors, just waiting for the stock price to rise out of thin air? The logic behind a rising stock price is either collective bullish sentiment or external capital inflows. Tianjin Capital is a new company; is it wrong to want a successful opening?"

Does this mean that the power of public fundraising should always be in your hands, passed down through generations? You can pass it on to your sons, to your grandsons, and so on, endlessly, right? When others enter the market, you impose incredibly harsh conditions on them, regardless of whether they have done something wrong or have no other choice. As long as they don't follow your rules, they are wrong, and you want to destroy them, is that it?

If your child is born without understanding calculus, then you should just kill them. The law still leaves some leeway for juvenile delinquency; what did you mean just now? Did you want all the employees of Tianjin Capital to go to jail? To be sentenced? In your eyes, are we utterly wicked?

Do you know how much positive news has emerged in the 5G and ultra-high voltage power transmission sectors in the past two weeks? From 5G licenses to base station construction… our analyst team spent months researching and formulating our strategy, hoping to achieve some initial success and retain some capital. If we weren't being targeted, with so much positive news, wouldn't it have been easy for our net asset value to increase by 20-30%?

We were simply being maliciously targeted; the stock price moved in a direction beyond our control, and all the positive news was almost completely drowned out. From beginning to end, our only goal was self-preservation, not only for the future of Tianjin Capital, but also for the nearly 100,000 fund investors…

"You established mutual fund companies, with assets in the hundreds of billions or even trillions, can talk about financial strategy. But for a newly established small company like ours, shouldn't our first priority be survival? If we can't survive, what strategy are we talking about? If small companies like ours have to talk about strategy, then I ask you... what are you doing?"

Just then, applause rang out.

Everyone looked in that direction and saw that it was Guan Sheng.

Guan Sheng smiled and applauded Yan Li, "Mr. Yan is right. Things have developed to this point, which is not what you wanted. You have already paid a lot in order to survive. Keep the documents, and I will find someone to authenticate them."

"Thank you for your understanding, Director Guan."

Yan Li returned to her seat.

The main reason she didn't mention Lin Lang today was that she was worried they would focus their attention on him. After all, she was now certain that it was Lin Lang who released the information about Tianjin Capital's holdings!

If the investigation uncovers anything, Lin Lang could face legal trouble.

She's fine; she can withstand an investigation.

Even if they find out about her interactions with Lin Lang, she could easily say that she likes Lin Lang and that it's just a simple romantic relationship.

In any case, it's definitely better to have those people's attention on you than on Lin Lang.

Everyone present was stunned by Yan Li's attack power.

What about hereditary succession, what about endless generations of descendants...?

In Yan Li's words, they were a group of landlords who ruled over their land and wouldn't allow any outsiders to come in and take away their share of the pie.

The methods they used to attack Yan Li were a series of operations by Tianjin Capital.

However, Yan Li refuted all of those points one by one.

The trading techniques described in Yan Li's documents are quite convincing.

After all, with this method, the goal can still be achieved. There's no need to make Shen An'an do such a thing; once there's evidence, she could go to jail.

Although evidence will certainly be difficult to obtain.

Guan Sheng chuckled and said, "As you all saw, the whole thing was a misunderstanding from beginning to end. Tianjin Capital did indeed violate some rules, but it wasn't their fault. I will also investigate whether the editing time of this document was tampered with as soon as possible, and I will notify everyone as soon as I have the results. That's all for today. Everyone take a break and have lunch here."

There are fewer procedures now. Guan Sheng originally had something else to announce today, but now he feels it's unnecessary.

……

The meeting room emptied quickly, and Yan Li was the last to leave.

As she walked out of the conference room, she sent a message to Lin Lang.

"It's a good thing you didn't come today, otherwise you probably would have fought with them. They were throwing mud at us, trying to get us thrown in jail..."

Lin Lang: "...Who are they? Those fund managers?"

"Ah."

"They've gone too far! What are they pretending to be innocent for, a bunch of scoundrels? Even if we did do it, so what? By the way, what did you say?"

"What can I say? I'm not exactly eloquent, so I can only accept it honestly. Luckily, the leaders are quite reasonable and gave me a few ways out."

"Are you kidding me? Do you think Yan Li is the kind of person who can take it? You won first place in the university debate competition for three consecutive years, leading your bunch of useless teammates to victory. Do you think I don't know that? Besides, didn't I already give you my reasons?"

Yan Li: "...You foresaw all of this?"

"No, but I know that the partner I choose is definitely not a coward. Otherwise, I might as well start my own company."

"Um...actually, I'm really wronged..."

"Don't be like Shen An'an, come have lunch together."

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

……

Just as Yan Li was about to go down the stairs, someone ran over and called out, "Mr. Yan, Mr. Yan, please wait... Your boss wants you to go to his office."

(End of this chapter)